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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Veldt.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lydia hear that George does not?
(a) Classical music
(b) A scream
(c) Songbirds
(d) Their children calling them

2. What is flying overhead?
(a) Mary Poppins
(b) Pterodactyls
(c) Vultures
(d) Ducks

3. How much did they pay for their home?
(a) $30,000
(b) $15,000
(c) $45,000
(d) $60,000

4. When was The Veldt published?
(a) 1960
(b) 1950
(c) 1970
(d) 1980

5. What do the beds “try” to do?
(a) Wake them up
(b) Tell them that they didn’t hear anything
(c) Nothing; they are just beds
(d) Rock Lydia and George to sleep

Short Answer Questions

1. What has just been eating in the nursery?

2. Why does Lydia bolt and run?

3. How long will it take to make “good children out of bad”?

4. Who says, “It’s just that the nursery is different now than it was before”?

5. What is “busy humming it to itself” in the opening paragraphs?

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